The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 13, sentence 2
It was a gorgeous fight, for the two fought as long as there was a seal that dared lift up his head, and when there were none they paraded grandly up and down the beach side by side, bellowing.
Who acts: seal, two, men · What happens: be, fight, dare, lift up, parade, bellow · To what, where: gorgeous fight, head, none
This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (seal, two, men), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 fight | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 fight | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 fight | det |
| 4 | gorgeous | gorgeous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 fight | amod |
| 5 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 fought | punct |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 two | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 two | det |
| 9 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 fought | nsubj |
| 10 | fought | fight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 fight | conj |
| 11 | as | as | ADV | _ | 12 long | advmod |
| 12 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 fought | advmod |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 was | mark |
| 14 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 15 was | expl |
| 15 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 long | advcl |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 seal | det |
| 17 | seal | seal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 was | nsubj |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 dared | nsubj |
| 19 | dared | dare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 seal | acl:relcl |
| 20 | lift | lift | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 dared | xcomp |
| 21 | up | up | ADP | _ | 20 lift | compound:prt |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 head | nmod:poss |
| 23 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 lift | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 none | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 none | cc |
| 26 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 28 were | advmod |
| 27 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 28 were | expl |
| 28 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 none | cop |
| 29 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 10 fought | obl |
| 30 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 paraded | nsubj |
| 31 | paraded | parade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 none | acl:relcl |
| 32 | grandly | grandly | ADV | _ | 33 up | advmod |
| 33 | up | up | ADV | _ | 31 paraded | advmod |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 side | cc |
| 35 | down | down | ADP | _ | 38 side | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 side | det |
| 37 | beach | beach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 side | compound |
| 38 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 none | conj |
| 39 | by | by | ADP | _ | 40 side | case |
| 40 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 side | nmod |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 bellowing | punct |
| 42 | bellowing | bellow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 fought | advcl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 fight | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | seal | a gorgeous fight | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fight | past | the two | long property | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | be | past | a seal | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | dare | past | a seal | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | lift up | infinitive | a seal not said here | Catch's head | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme | ||||
| 6 | is a | past | none | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | parade | past | men = man | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 8 | bellow | gerund | the two not said here | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, Project Gutenberg book 236 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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